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The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

Given the Democrat vs. Republican and left vs. right rancor that seems to suffuse every issue today, the conservative pushback against the despicable Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol over their McCarthyite tagging of Department of Justice lawyers who defended (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Shaun Mullen

Who Owns Data About You?

Who Owns Data About You?

On Saturday, I blogged about a bill before the Utah Senate that would allow law enforcement to use administrative subpoenas to get data about you from your ISP when they suspected you of crimes against children. This would be done without a warrant and (...)

4 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Phil Windley

FBI’s mercy killing of the anthrax case

FBI's mercy killing of the anthrax case

This is our 10th post on the anthrax attacks. Will it be our last? Yes, if the FBI has anything to say about it. They are closing the case. A case they messed up pretty thoroughly from the outset but now want us to believe they’ve solved, even (...)

23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

French justice system fails in the case of Tanja Pozgaj

Tanja Pozgaj should be alive today enjoying life with her 18-month-old son Ibrahima. Instead she’s dead, murdered by her former partner, Mahamadou Doucoure; a man she had reported to the police and local authorities on several occasions as being (...)

22 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

French baker fined for sounding his horn gets his day in court

French baker fined for sounding his horn gets his day in court

Paulo Païs appeared in a French court on Monday to appeal a 1,000 euros fine imposed on him for breaking the highway code and "misusing his van horn" while making his early morning rounds. Païs runs a bakery in Nesles-la-Vallée, a village 40 (...)

17 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Downloading pornography at work not illegal - rules French Supreme Court

Downloading pornography at work not illegal - rules French Supreme Court

La Cour de Cassation in France, or the country’s Supreme court, has overturned a decision made by an industrial tribunal and an appeals courts which had both upheld the dismissal of an employee who downloaded pornographic images at work. The case (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Activists Celebrate 2009’s Many Wins Against Scientology Crime-Cult

Activists Celebrate 2009's Many Wins Against Scientology Crime-Cult

The Scientology organization suffered many crippling blows in 2009, as the Anonymous human rights activist network turned up the pressure, journalists and judges stopped pulling their punches, and cult members continued to bail out in droves. As 2009 (...)

31 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

A French man called for jury selection for his own trial

The French judicial system is a notoriously cumbersome creature and of course, as in many other countries, has been is prone to making mistakes, or at least taking a heck of a long time in admitting to, and then correcting them. Take the case of Loïc (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

’We Don’t Learn From Our Mistakes.’

In late 2000 Louis Pepe was a guard in the same New York facility where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will likely be housed during his trial. One of the prisoners was an alleged top aide to Osama bin Laden : Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. On November 1st, 2000 Salim and (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Lindsey Graham To Eric Holder : What Happens If Khalid Sheik Mohammed Wasn’t Mirandized ?

Lindsey Graham To Eric Holder : What Happens If Khalid Sheik Mohammed Wasn't Mirandized ?

It’s kind of sad that Eric Holder has to be told during a Congressional hearing, after already choosing to put one of the most notorious terrorists in history in trial in our civilian court system, that there’s no precedent for trying enemy (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Rob Port

Dar Al-Hijrah Official’s Deception on Awlaki

Dar Al-Hijrah Official's Deception on Awlaki

When a former imam from his mosque praised Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan as a "hero," Dar al-Hijrah outreach director Imam Johari Abdul Malik took to the airwaves to criticize the remarks and cast them as surprising : "Let’s (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

9/11 Terrorists - A Jury of Their Peers

Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder are conferring constitutional rights on noncitizens, why do the jurors have to come from New York ? Let’s put together a jury of the terrorist peers from a pool of “American Citizens.” Here is a list (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Show Trial Goes To New York

Show Trial Goes To New York

The significance of continuing growth in unemployment ranks has been obliterated from news headlines by an unexpected decision by the Administration: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay Sept. 11 terrorist detainees will be tried in a (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

Rachida Dati’s latest front cover

Rachida Dati's latest front cover

When the former French justice minister and now member of the European parliament, Rachida Dati, makes the headlines in France it’s hard to know whether it’ll be for political reasons or because she’s a - well for want of a better word - (...)

4 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

The Karadzic trial and Bosnian realities

The Karadzic trial and Bosnian realities

The trial of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is a test of justice and accountability over terrible crimes. But the trend of events in Bosnia itself also demands the international community’s urgent attention. By Martin Shaw. he trial of (...)

4 nov. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Jailed after writing sex stories - for himself

Jailed after writing sex stories - for himself

A man who authored porn for himself has been jailed for two weeks. He had stories about “sex involving teen girls and incest he wrote himself and never tried to publish or share,” says the Ottawa Sun, going on, “Thomas, 43, pleaded (...)

2 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

French motorcyclist fined for wearing contact lenses

French motorcyclist fined for wearing contact lenses

All right the headline is a little misleading as will become clear. But in essence it’s what happened. Once again it’s time to say "road users in France beware". After the recent case of a motorist being fined (€22) for (...)

16 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Good News About Rape. Sort Of.

Good News About Rape. Sort Of.

There is good news and bad news regarding rape. Reported rapes have fallen to the lowest level in 20 years because DNA evidence is helping send more rapists to prison and victims are more willing to work with police and prosecutors and victims advocates, (...)

13 oct. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Italy : the court ruled, now what?

Italy : the court ruled, now what?

Italy’s top court, the Constitutional Court decided that a law granting immunity to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi violated the constitution and is thus illegal. In September, the state attorney said if the law was deemed (...)

8 Oct. 2009 | | Massimo Famularo

Justice for Mambo - the French dog set on fire and left to die

Justice for Mambo - the French dog set on fire and left to die

A second online petition has been launched to gather support for "Justice for Mambo", the three-year-old dog set alight by two people in the southern French village of Espira-de-l’Agly in August this year. Signatures are being gather to (...)

5 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Van Loan’s Misleading Claims : Case for Lawful Access Not Closed

Van Loan's Misleading Claims : Case for Lawful Access Not Closed

The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities - dubbed the "lawful access" initiative - dates back to 1999, when government officials began crafting proposals to institute new surveillance technologies within Canadian networks along with (...)

30 sep. 2009 | | Michael Geist

Revenge : Indeed A Dish Best Served Cold

JOSEF SCHEUNGRABER (ABOVE) AND JOHN DEMJANJUK Like the last echoes of a enormous celestial event long, long ago, a 90-year-old former Wehrmacht lieutenant has been sentenced to life in prison and an 89-year-old former death camp guard has been deemed fit (...)

13 aoû. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Indeterminate sentences and Baby P

Fresh and yet more noxious light has been cast on the working of the indefensible régime of IPPs (indeterminate sentences for public protection) by the sentences passed in May on the three people convicted of indirect responsibility for the death of (...)

12 aoû. 2009 | | Brian Barder

Teenager should be given adult sentence

Teenager should be given adult sentence

When Toronto teenager Stefanie Rengel was stabbed to death in front of her house, the city was in shock. This feeling was further aggravated once people learned the horrific facts behind this gruesome murder : another girl at Stefanie’s school, only (...)

28 jui. 2009 | | Werner Patels

The President The Professor and the Police Officer!

The President The Professor and the Police Officer!

Limbaugh calls Obama an angry Black man trying to destroy a white officer As important as health care reform is it has taken a back seat because of what happened in Cambridge between the exemplary cop the exemplary Professor and the exemplary President. (...)

27 Jul. 2009 | | James Joiner

"Show trials"? Not so much.

"Show trials"? Not so much.

When Glenn Greenwald and Pejman Yousefzadeh agree on something, it’s a safe bet that (1) they’re both wrong and (2) they’re both blinded by their insensate loathing of Barack Obama. Right now, they agree that the Obama (...)

9 Jul. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

When Bernie Burned Us

Bernie Madoff’ Ponzi scheme has left many of our charities, philanthropies, and NGO’s in pieces. At a time when we could least afford it. Not having any advice to give, I decided to go for a laugh. So did I get a chuckle out of you (...)

3 jui. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

Sharon Lissauer, Madoff Victim of Mystery

A picture in today’s New York Times showed Bernard Madoff victim Sharon Lissauer speaking to the press outside the courthouse after Madoff got his 150-year stretch in the Big House. Lissauer’s been quoted and photographed before. But (...)

1er jui. 2009 | | Kesher Talk

Ponzi scammer Madoff gets 150 years

Ponzi scammer Madoff gets 150 years

For anyone who’s been following the Madoff trial, he’s been sentenced to 150 years in the slammer. And with that kind of sentence imposed, he’s unlikely to end up in a federal holiday camp, the destination of all too many so-called (...)

30 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Girls gone wild !!! Cops pepper spray and arrest drunken lesbians at late-night bash for Francine Busby

Francine Busby is the perennial challenger to Congressman Brian Bilbray in California’s 50th Congressional District. Her 2006 campaign blew up when she publicly encouraged illegal aliens to campaign, if not vote, for her. Her 2010 campaign is off to (...)

29 jui. 2009 | | W.C. Varones

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